Posts Tagged ‘Apple’

Riptide Reveals In-Game Payment Results

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS, Research & Stats | No Comments »

iPhone developer Riptide Games has disclosed statistics on their in-game sales in full detail. They will continue to do so over the coming time and we have received permission to copy their details on MGB

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Korea to Receive the iPhone

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Korea, the market of technical innovation and MMORPG’s where consumers seem to hide away from reality. In a market so far ahead of ours, Apple now will try to get the iPhone 3Gs on top of the charts.

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Apple Explains App Approval Process

November 24th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Apple’s VP of World-Wide Product Marketing Phil Schiller has opened the book on the App Approval Processes at the company. He tries to explainthe, sometimes controversial, rejections that have been reported lately.

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Sony Works on iTunes Competitor

November 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Sony is working hard to pick up the competition with iTunes. It already owns a digital sales channel called PSN (or Playstation Network) and it plans to expend it under the name of Sony Online Services.

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Zune HD’s 3D Games Offering

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: XNA | No Comments »

Some time back, Microsoft announced support for 3D gaming on their Zune HD media player. Now, they have arrived and Microsoft has chosen to make them available for free.

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Unity Engine Causes App Store Headaches

November 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Just before the weekend, a number of developers saw their mobile games being booted off the App Store by Apple. The problem? They used Unity Platform and Unity was breaching its contract with Apple by supporting undocumented API’s.

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Apple Moves into Stereotypes

November 11th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

When we opened up iTunes this morning, we noticed a new promotional page aiming specifically at Girls called “App Store Essentials: Apps for Girls”. With this theme, Apple is clearly supporting a stereotype view on the market.

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Rumors Next iPhone (nano) Surface Again

November 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

According to various sources, Apple is planning a serious update for the iPhone platform. Apart from bringing a much smaller model, the company would also be working on a SDMA/GSM hybrid.

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$99 iPhone 3Gs 8GB Ahead

November 9th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial, Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

Rumors say AT&T is feeling the competition from Verizon’s droid handset. To counter the competition, Apple and AT&T would be launching a brand new edition of the iPhone 3Gs for this holiday season.